pics of Rams in use.

[Grams]

Right on

Here’s another view of that camping-spot:

 

[RamDiver]

Another cord of wood for the never ending cold temperatures.




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[Islander39er]

Here’s another view of that camping-spot:

Looks sheltered from the wind!

 

[Islander39er]

Another cord of wood for the never ending cold temperatures.



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Nice going!

 

[MT Hillbilly]

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hopefully your air-stream slipped right through!?

 

[MT Hillbilly]

Another cord of wood for the never ending cold temperatures.


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looks more like a rick, but perhaps you already unloaded half of it?

 

[RamDiver]

looks more like a rick, but perhaps you already unloaded half of it?

LOL. Ya, I thought it looked a bit small in that pic but it still stacked up as 32².

There's another small pile under the Roll'N'Lock canopy at the front.

The previous load was better and definitely over a cord when I stacked it in the woodshed.








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[Grams]

hopefully your air-stream slipped right through!?

Actually…. Those pics were subsequent to Backing UP-hill….and turning backwards INTO that spot. (The first pic was taken with me standing downhill from the truck…with my head about the same altitude as the truck bumper.)

It was tight…but when we arrived in the park…it was the only spot available. I suspect few others wanted to attempt it.

 

[Gear Jammer]

Here's a couple pictures of mine doing some work.

 

[MT Hillbilly]

LOL. Ya, I thought it looked a bit small in that pic but it still stacked up as 32².

There's another small pile under the Roll'N'Lock canopy at the front.

The previous load was better and definitely over a cord when I stacked it in the woodshed.


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hey, its ALL about how it STACKS UP! EVERY TIME!!

 

[MT Hillbilly]

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I am hoping you had more than just the driver when you loaded that load! Perhaps the ram had the easy part!?
Literally found on road dead?

 

[MT Hillbilly]

Actually…. Those pics were subsequent to Backing UP-hill….and turning backwards INTO that spot. (The first pic was taken with me standing downhill from the truck…with my head about the same altitude as the truck bumper.)

It was tight…but when we arrived in the park…it was the only spot available. I suspect few others wanted to attempt it.

I looked at that , and thought.. I bet you were VERY sheltered, but always in the back of my mind I would be thinking, HOPE one of those doesn't choose tonight to tip over for some reason! (Pretty sure it wouldn't keep me awake!)

 

[MT Hillbilly]

LOL. Ya, I thought it looked a bit small in that pic but it still stacked up as 32².

There's another small pile under the Roll'N'Lock canopy at the front.

The previous load was better and definitely over a cord when I stacked it in the woodshed.


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I was born in the mid west, and we heated by wood, mostly we burned trees that were already down, trying to keep the woods clear enough to drive through. Walnut, hickory, lots of different kinds of oak, Hedge ( osage orange) coffee bean, box elder, but honestly just about everything that needed cut up. When I moved to Montana, it took me years to get used to how fast the "hard" woods burned, and how little heat, For sure compared to Hedge apple! I don't know my western woods, but it looks like that might be fir? the bark looks more like willow.

 

[RamDiver]

I was born in the mid west, and we heated by wood, mostly we burned trees that were already down, trying to keep the woods clear enough to drive through. Walnut, hickory, lots of different kinds of oak, Hedge ( osage orange) coffee bean, box elder, but honestly just about everything that needed cut up. When I moved to Montana, it took me years to get used to how fast the "hard" woods burned, and how little heat, For sure compared to Hedge apple! I don't know my western woods, but it looks like that might be fir? the bark looks more like willow.

I wish I had more of those types of hardwood available here, but in this region, it's mostly different qualities of Ash or if you're lucky, hard Maple.

The wood in those pictures is primarily Ash with a few pieces of Maple.

This supplier, unlike most, has clean and dry wood. And this particular Ash seems to burn longer and leave more embers than most I've tried in the past 17 years.

In this area, nothing beats hard Maple, but it is becoming much more rare, like Oak or Cherry.

Most of the firewood processors around here tend to use a wood processor and drop the product onto a muddy ground surface, then push it around with a front-end loader, leaving it in piles and exposed to the elements.

Some of them then load this wet and muddy wood into a shelter for storage.
This guy has the wood processor under the edge of the shelter, which has a concrete slab floor. Even the stripped logs before cutting are sitting on trailers or spaced off the ground on logs.

There's one other guy in the area who has primarily hard Maple and a fantastic quality-control system, so you don't get any garbage or excessive amounts of bark and kindling.

Unfortunately, he seems to cater to an older crowd that prefers small pieces of wood.
That's his story, anyway.

Small stuff burns too fast for my liking. I prefer larger pieces of wood that require 2 hands to pick up and manage.

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[Grams]

I looked at that , and thought.. I bet you were VERY sheltered, but always in the back of my mind I would be thinking, HOPE one of those doesn't choose tonight to tip over for some reason! (Pretty sure it wouldn't keep me awake!)

It would be incredibly bad luck….(or pizzed-off-gods)….that would tumble those things down on the particular days/nights we were there…. They’ve been there since Pangea!

 

[MT Hillbilly]

I wish I had more of those types of hardwood available here, but in this region, it's mostly different qualities of Ash or if you're lucky, hard Maple.

The wood in those pictures is primarily Ash with a few pieces of Maple.

This supplier, unlike most, has clean and dry wood. And this particular Ash seems to burn longer and leave more embers than most I've tried in the past 17 years.

In this area, nothing beats hard Maple, but it is becoming much more rare, like Oak or Cherry.

Most of the firewood processors around here tend to use a wood processor and drop the product onto a muddy ground surface, then push it around with a front-end loader, leaving it in piles and exposed to the elements.

Some of them then load this wet and muddy wood into a shelter for storage.
This guy has the wood processor under the edge of the shelter, which has a concrete slab floor. Even the stripped logs before cutting are sitting on trailers or spaced off the ground on logs.

There's one other guy in the area who has primarily hard Maple and a fantastic quality-control system, so you don't get any garbage or excessive amounts of bark and kindling.

Unfortunately, he seems to cater to an older crowd that prefers small pieces of wood.
That's his story, anyway.

Small stuff burns too fast for my liking. I prefer larger pieces of wood that require 2 hands to pick up and manage.

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Make's perfect sense, maple pretty to do wood projects with too! I guess the wood yrds here do the same, though I don't think any of them actually store wood under a roof! I always wonder how the gravel they impregnated the logs with worked with the wood processors. I guess one gets a bit more btu from burning small pieces, but I have a hard time making pine last all night even with big pieces! If actually trying to heat a house, not just keep the fire alive...

 

[Islander39er]

Moved some shingles a few hundred feet on my own property.

Stock height base model doing her best flex.

 

[Islander39er]

Dirty job

 

[Curmudgeon]

Brought home a used but new-to-me snow blower a couple weeks ago. Not the first time I hauled "freight" but the first time I towed. Trailer just under 900lbs, snow blower a little under 300lbs.


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[Islander39er]

Load of sod chunks